Anyone else surprised by a big name actor in a pre-fame role?

Farrah Fawcett was in a brief scene on an early episode of the Partridge Family.

 

Amy Adams on Buffy The Vampire Slayer (season 5, episode 6 from 2000)



Amy Adams on That 70's Show (season 2, episode 15 from 2000)



Amy Adams on Charmed (season 2, episode 16 from 2000)

 

Wasn't Amy Adams on an episode of Smallville in the first season too?

 

Yes. She also appeared in an episode of Providence in 2000 and an episode of The West Wing in 2002.

 

I saw Judd Hirsch back in 1969 as the lead in a very funny off-Broadway play called Scuba Duba. He did not originate the role; the original star was Jerry Orbach.

Another one: Kate Beckinsale as Hero in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.

 

a very young Christopher Walken in an episode of Naked City! man he looked so different in his younger years.

 

and of course the great Michael J. Pollard...the boy in the mirror...as usual a spacy role.

 

Duvall..he also played a heroin addict in an early episode of Naked City.

 

yes! the Doctor in "22" and the assistant to the guy who bet he wouldn't talk for a year.

 

Stefani Germanotta in an uncredited high school classmate of A J Soprano in the "Telltale Moozadell" episode of "The Sopranos".

 

Was just watching Stripes tonight and Thirtysomething's Timothy Busfield's first role listed on IMDb is Stripes.

 

Not the Colin Farrell you're thinking of though.

 

Cynthia Nixon in Amadeus as the servant spying on the mozarts

 

Every time I watch a favorite movie, I scan the the names of the minor roles in the credits for now famous actors who were just getting started then.

It is always fun when you make a "discovery".

 

Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce in Australian soap Neighbours
Brad Pitt in Dallas
David Bowie in The Virgin Soldiers
Christopher Walken - Annie Hall

 

Leonard Nimoy is in one of the war episodes of Twilight Zone, too.

 

Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves in "Dangerous liaisons"

 

Joan Allen in Zeisters/Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid.

 

How about these:

Mark Hamill as one of Laurie's boyfriends in "The Partridge Family".

And look for a very young Leonard Nimoy in this episode of "Dragnet":

 

Maybe this has been already stated (I'm only halfway through the thread) this is hardly a bit part or a "oh look who's in this movie" surprise. Leslie was the main character in the film, (if you discount Robbie the Robot) and the captain of the ship, and I believe he also got equal top billing with Walter Pigeon and Ann Francis in the original movie posters and ads. But he actually got far more screen time than Pigeon and a lot more than Francis.

 

Haven't read this whole thread but I was surprised to see what I think was Robert Downey Jr.'s first major film, Tuff Turf, turn up on Netflix. I'm intrigued, but not quite enough so to watch it.

 

Ben Afleck playing a jerk in Dazed and Confused....

 

...ooops....

 

This was lost for many years....amazing it turned up.

Evan

 

Don't know if he's considered a big name actor, but I was surprised to see Damian Lewis (AKA Nicholas Brody from Homeland) while watching an old episode of Inspector Frost, from 1996:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0731955/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_37